Wikipedia:USEP/Courses/Labor/Gender II: Economics of Gender (Gunseli Berik)

Course information

• University: University of Utah
• Course title: Labor/Gender II
• Professor name: Günseli Berik
• Professor's Wikipedia username: BerikG (talk · contribs)
• Course start date: August 20, 2012

Course description

Part of the Labor/Gender PhD sequence, Economics of Gender focuses on gender inequalities in capitalist labor markets, their origins and their consequences. The course offers a gender aware perspective in examining labor market inequalities, how they are integrated with non-market activities, their well being effects, their role in the macro economy, and the impact of macroeconomic policies on work inequalities.

The course will aim to bridge the well-known divides between industrial country and developing country research and between microeconomics/labor market analysis and macroeconomics/international economics. Our starting point is that there is one world economy with connections between the global South and the North, in spite of the structural differences between (and within) these regions.

Expected Outcomes

Students are expected to become proficient in the PhD field of Labor/Gender in the following areas:

• The feminist economics project in economics.

• Theories and evidence on unpaid work in the household, the accounting project, and the relationship between gender inequalities in the household and in the labor market.

• Theories and evidence on labor market inequalities by gender. The consequences of gender inequalities in the labor market for well being and macroeconomic outcomes.

• The impact of neo-liberal macroeconomic policies on gendered labor market outcomes.

Course Requirements

Course assignments are designed to prepare students to successfully complete the PhD exam in the Labor/Gender field and facilitate writing a strong dissertation proposal in the field. To this end the course will emphasize not only grounding in feminist economics at the theoretical and empirical levels but also the development of writing and empirical research skills. Grades are determined by feminist economics paper (15%), literature review papers (45%), Wikipedia contribution (25%); Wikipedia process (15%).

Feminist Economics Paper

A 1800-2000 word paper synthesizing the feminist economics project. Due Date: one week after coverage of the topic.

Review Papers

There will be three 1800-2000 word literature survey papers on three topics/subsections of the reading list. Each paper will review at least 5 readings from the relevant section(s), including selections from the supplementary reading. You should come to the relevant class meetings with a draft of your review and be prepared to initiate the class discussion. A guideline for papers will be provided. Due: One week following coverage of the topic.

Wikipedia assignment

Wikipedia contribution should be 2500-3000 paper and an in-depth exploration of one of the course topics. The paper is intended to build upon the papers students' write throughout the semester. It will include an expanded and revised literature review, methodology and (if an empirical paper)evaluation of potential data sources. The goal is to help students develop a pre-proposal paper. The project will consist of the following assignments, done over the course of the semester:

• Identify relevant Wikipedia articles;
• Choose an article to improve or start a new article;
• Study and critique the article to identify what you will contribute;
• Seek feedback from the Wikipedia author community via Article and Wikiproject Talk pages;
• Give feedback on classmates' draft contributions(through the in-class workshop and on Talk pages);
• Publish the contributions on Wikipedia.

Readings

INTRODUCTION

FILM: Who’s Counting: Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies, and Global Economics (1995) lays out some themes of feminist economics.

Waring, Marilyn. 2003. “Counting for Something” Gender and Development, 11(1): 35-43, May.

FEMINIST ECONOMICS PERSPECTIVES

A Thematic Overview

Nelson, Julie. 1995. “Feminism and Economics” Journal of Economic Perspectives 9 (2): 131-148.

Drucilla Barker and Susan Feiner. 2004. “Economics She Wrote” Ch. 1. in Barker and Feiner Liberating Economics: Feminist Perspectives on Families, Work, and Globalization, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Barker, Drucilla. 2000. “Neoclassical Economics” in Petersen and Lewis eds. Elgar Companion for Feminist Economics, Edward Elgar: 570-577

Paula England 1993. ‘The Separative Self: Androcentric Bias in Neoclassical Assumptions’, in Marianne A. Ferber and Julie A. Nelson (eds), Beyond Economic Man: Feminist Theory and Economics, Chapter 2, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 37–53.

Retheorizing Wellbeing: The Capability Approach

Sen, A.K. 1999. “The Ends and Means of Development” In Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom. New York: Alfred A. Knopf

Martha C. Nussbaum. 2003. “Capabilities as Fundamental Entitlements: Sen and Social Justice’, Feminist Economics, 9 (2/3), July/November, 33–59

OR

Nussbaum, Martha. 2003. “Promoting Women’s Capabilities” in Lourdes Beneria and Savitri Bisnath, eds. Global Tensions: Challenges and Opportunities in the World Economy, Routledge, pp. 241-256.

Robeyns, Ingrid. 2003. “Sen’s Capability Approach and Gender Inequality: Selecting Relevant Capabilities.” Feminist Economics, 9 (2 & 3): 61-92.

Sakiko Fukuda-Parr (2003), “The Human Development Paradigm: Operationalizing Sen’s Ideas On Capabilities” Feminist Economics, 9 (2/3), July/November, 301–317.

UNDP. 2011. Human Development Report 2011, Tables 1 & 4.

Engendering Macroeconomics

Cagatay, Nilüfer. 2003. “Engendering Macroeconomics” in Martha Gutierrez, ed. Macroeconomics: Making Gender Matter, Zed Books, pp. 22-35.

Berik, Günseli and Yana Rodgers. 2008. “Engendering Development Strategies and Macroeconomic Policies: What’s Sound and Sensible?” In Social Justice and Gender Equality, Routledge, pp. 16-28.

Berik, Günseli. 1997. “The Need for Crossing the Method Boundaries in Economics Research.” Feminist Economics 3(2): 121-125.

Kim, Marlene. 1997. “Poor Women Survey Poor Women: Feminist Perspectives on Survey Research” Feminist Economics 3(2): 99-117.

Jacobsen, Joyce. 2003. “Some Implications of the Feminist Project in Economics for Empirical Methodology” in Barker and Kuiper eds., Toward a Feminist Philosophy of Economics, Routledge.

Van Staveren, Irene. 1997. “Focus Groups: Contributing to a Gender Aware Methodology.” Feminist Economics 3(2): 131-135.

Esim, Simel. 1997. “Can Feminist Methodology Reduce Power Hierarchies in Research Settings?” Feminist Economics 3(2): 137-139.

Olmstead, Jennifer. 1997. “Telling Palestinian Women’s Economic Stories.” Feminist Economics 3(2): 141-151.

Piore, Michael. 2006. “Qualitative Research: Does it Fit in Economics?” European Management Review, No. 3, 17-23.

An Alternative: Summing Up

Power, Marilyn. 2004. “Social Provisioning as a starting point for Feminist Economics” Feminist Economics 10 (3): 3-19.

Phillips, Ann. 2004. “Defending Equality of Outcome” The Journal of Political Philosophy 12(1): 1-19.

SOCIAL DIVISION OF LABOR BY GENDER: CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES

Gender Division of Labor in Historical Perspective

Humphries, Jane. 1977. “Class Struggle and the Persistence of the Working Class Family” Cambridge Journal of Economics, September.

Hartmann, Heidi. 1979. “Capitalism, Patriarchy, and Job Segregation by Sex” in Zillah Eisenstein (ed.) Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism, New York: Monthly Review Press.

Drucilla Barker and Susan Feiner. 2004. Ch. 2 in Barker and Feiner Liberating Economics.

Engels, The Origin of the Private Property, the Family and the State Ch 2: 135-146.

Goldin, Claudia. 1995. “The U-shaped Female Labor Force Function in Economic Development and Economic History,” in T.P. Schultz (ed.) Investment in Women's Human Capital and Economic Development. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Humphries Jane and Carmen Sarasua. 2012. “Off the Record: Reconstructing Women’s Labor Force Participation Rates in 18th and 19th Centuries Europe” Feminist Economics, 18(4) forthcoming.

Horrell, Sara and Jane Humphries. 1995. “Women’s Labour Force Participation and the Transition to the Male-Breadwinner Family, 1790–1865.” The Economic History Review 48(1): 89–117.

Rau, William and Robert Wazienski. 1999. “Industrialization, Female Labor Force Participation, and the Modern Division of Labor by Sex” in Mutari and Figart, Women and the Economy 54-64.

Gender Division of Labor: Work and Bargaining in the Household

Blau, Ferber, Winkler, 2010. The Economics of Women, Men, and Work Ch. 3.

Bergmann, Barbara. 1981. “The Economic Risks of Being a Housewife” in in Mutari and Figart, Women and the Economy: 101-107.

Jefferson, Therese and John King. 2001. “‘Never Intended to be a Theory of Everything:’ Domestic Labor in Neoclassical and Marxian Economics” Feminist Economics, 7(3): 71-101.

Sen, Amartya. 1990. “Gender and Cooperative Conflicts” in Irene Tinker (ed.) Persistent Inequalities New York: Oxford University Press, 123–49.

Gender Division of Labor in the Household: Accounting for Unpaid work

Benería, Lourdes. 2003. “Paid and Unpaid Labor: Meanings and Debates” in Gender, Development, and Globalization: Economics as if All People Mattered, Chapter 3, London and New York, NY: Routledge, 131-160.

Folbre, Nancy. 2008. “Accounting for Women’s Work” ch. 6: 96-103 and “Valuing Family Work” in Nancy Folbre, Valuing Children, Harvard University Press.

Folbre, Nancy. 2001. The Invisible Heart: Economics and Family Values Chapters 1 and 2 (The Economics of Care and The Care Penalty)

Himmelweit, Susan. 2002. “Making Visible the Hidden Economy: The Case for Gender-Impact Analysis of Economic Policy” Feminist Economics, 8 (1), March, 49–70.

Maria Sagrario Floro (1995), “Women’s Well-Being, Poverty, and Work Intensity” Feminist Economics 1 (3), November, 1–25.

Nancy Folbre (2006), “Measuring Care: Gender, Empowerment, and the Care Economy” Journal of Human Development, 7 (2), July, 183–99.

Gender Division of Labor in the Labor Market

Blau, Ferber, Winkler, 2010. The Economics of Women, Men, and Work Ch. 4-6.

Grimshaw, Damian and Jill Rubery 2007. Undervaluing Women’s Work, WP 53, European Work and Employment Research Centre, University of Manchester.

Elson, Diane. 1999. “Labor Markets as Gendered Institutions: Equality, Efficiency and Empowerment Issues.” World Development, 27 (3) : 611-627.

Wendy Sigle-Rushton and Jane Waldfogel . 2007. “Motherhood and Women’s Earnings in Anglo-American, Continental European, and Nordic Countries,” Feminist Economics, 13 (2), April, 55–91.

Liu, Lan, Xiao-yuan Dong, and Xiaoying Zheng. 2010. “Parental Care and Married Women’s Labor Supply in Urban China” Feminist Economics 16(3), July: 169-192.

Labor Market Discrimination

Blau, Ferber, Winkler, 2010. The Economics of Women, Men, and Work Ch. 7.

Badgett, M.V. Lee. 1995. “The Wage Effects of Sexual Orientation Discrimination,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review (48) 4: 726-739.

Bertrand Marianne and Sendhil Mullainathan. 2004. “Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination.” American Economic Review 94 (4): 991-1013.

Figart, Deborah. “Gender as More than a Dummy Variable: Feminist Approaches to Discrimination” Review of Social Economy 55(1): 1-32.

Darity, William and Patrick Mason. 1998. “Evidence on Discrimination in Employment: Codes of Color, Codes of Gender” Journal of Economic Perspectives 12 (2): 63-90.

Rodgers, Janine and Jill Rubery. 2003. “The Minimum Wage as a Tool to Combat Discrimination and Promote Equality” International Labour Review 142(4): 543-556.

Barbara R. Bergmann (1997), “Government Support for Families with Children in the United States and France” Feminist Economics, 3 (1), March, 85–94.

Gender, Poverty, and Illbeing: Theory and Evidence

Chant, Sylvia. 2008. “The ‘Feminization of Poverty’ and the ‘Feminization’ of Anti-poverty Programmes: Room for Revision?” Journal of Development Studies, 44(2): 165-197.

Sen, Amartya. 1999. “Poverty as Capability Deprivation,” Ch. 4 in Development as Freedom. New York: Anchor Books.

Fukuda-Parr, Sakiko. 1999. “What Does Feminization of Poverty Mean? It Isn’t Just Lack of Income” Feminist Economics 5(2) 99-103

Gammage, Sarah. 2010. “Time Pressed and Time Poor: Unpaid Household Work in Guatemala” Feminist Economics 16(3), July: 79-112

Bardasi, Elena and Quentin Wodon. 2010. “Working Long Hours and Having No Choice: Time Poverty in Guinea” Feminist Economics 16(3), July: 45-78.

Latapí, Augustin Escobar and Mercedes Gonzales de la Rocha. 2009. “Girls, mothers, and poverty reduction in Mexico: Evaluating Progresa – Oportunidades,” in Shahra Razavi (ed), The Gendered Impacts of Liberalization: Towards "Embedded Liberalism"? London and New York: Routledge: 267-289.

GENDER, TRADE, AND INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS

Neoliberal Economic Policies, International Trade, and Investment

Benería, Lourdes (2003), ‘Markets, Globalization and Gender’, in Gender, Development, and Globalization: Economics as if All People Mattered, Chapter 3, London and New York, NY: Routledge, 63–90.

Standing, Guy. 1999. “Global Feminization through Flexible Labor: A Theme Revisited,” World Development 27 (3): 583-602.

Carr, Marilyn, Martha Chen and Jane Tate (2000). “Globalization and Home Based Workers,” Feminist Economics. 6(3): 123-142.

Elson, Diane and Ruth Pearson.1981. “The Subordination of Women and Internationalization of Factory Production” in K.Young et al. Of Marriage and the Market, CSE.

Koggel, Christine. M. 2003. “Globalization and Women’s Paid Work: Expanding Freedom” Feminist Economics 9(2&3): 163-183.

Pun Ngai (2007), ‘Gendering the Dormitory Labor System: Production, Reproduction, and Migrant Labor in South China’, Feminist Economics, 13 (3/4), July/October, 239–58.

Kabeer, Naila. 2004. “Globalization, Labor Standards, and Women's Rights: Dilemmas of Collective (In)action in an Interdependent World,” Feminist Economics 10 (1): 3-35.

Baslevent Cem and Ozlem Onaran 2004. “The Effect of Export-Oriented Growth on Female Labor Market Outcomes in Turkey” World Development, 32 (8) 1375-1393.

Assaad, Ragui and Melanie Arntz. 2004. “Constrained Geographical Mobility and Gendered Labor Market Outcomes Under Structural Adjustment: Evidence from Egypt” World Development 33 (3): 431-454.

Gender Wage Inequality, Trade and International Investment

Berik, Günseli, Yana van der Muelen Rodgers, and Joseph Zveglich Jr. 2004. “International Trade and Gender Wage Discrimination: Evidence from East Asia.” Review of Development Economics, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 237-254.

Black, Sandra and Elizabeth Brainerd. 2004. “Importing Equality? The Impact of Globalization on Gender Discrimination.” Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 57, No. 4, pp. 540-559.

Kongar, Ebru. 2007. “Importing Equality or Exporting Jobs? In van Staveren et al. Feminist Economics of Trade, Routledge.

Berik, Günseli. 2000. “Mature Export-led Growth and Gender Wage Inequality in Taiwan”, Feminist Economics 6 (3): 1-26.

Seguino, Stephanie. 2000. “Accounting for Asian Economic Growth: Adding Gender to the Equation.” Feminist Economics. 6(3): 27-58.

Busse, Matthias and Christian Spielmann. 2006. “Gender inequality and trade”, in Review of International Economics, 14 (3): 362-372, Aug.

Braunstein, Elissa and Mark Brenner. 2007. “Foreign Direct Investment in China: The Changing Impact on Male and Female Wages in Urban Areas” Feminist Economics 13 (3/4).

Gender Effects of Macroeconomic Instability

Rubery, Jill. 1988. (ed.) Women and Recession, Routledge: London, Ch. 1.

Lim, Joseph, “The Effects of the East Asian Crisis on the Employment of Women and Men: The Philippines Case” World Development, 28(7) 2000.

Kim, Haejin and Paula B. Voos. 2007. “The Korean Economic Crisis and Working Women,” Journal of Contemporary Asia 37(2): 190-208.

Seguino, Stephanie. 2010. “The Global Economic Crisis, its Gender and Ethnic Implications, and Policy Responses.” Gender and Development 18(2), July.

Berik and Kongar 2012. “The Recession’s Impact on the Time Use of Mothers and Fathers: A Trend Analysis” Levy Institute Working Paper, June.

Albelda, Randy. 2013. “Gender Impacts of the “Great Recession” in the United States” in Jill Rubery and Maria Karamessini, eds. Women and Austerity: The Economic Crisis and the Future for Gender Equality (forthcoming).

Policies for a Gender Equitable Future

Seguino, Stephanie and Caren Grown. 2006. “Gender Equity and Globalization: Macroeconomic Policy for Developing Countries” Journal of International Development, 18 (8), November, 10.

Folbre, Nancy. 2007. Valuing Children, Ch. 10.

Sharp, Rhonda and Ray Broomhill. 2002. ‘Budgeting for Equality: The Australian Experience’, Feminist Economics, 8 (1), March. 25–47.

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Corina Besliu	Corinabesliu1965 (talk · contribs)	Gender pay gap in Russia	Duygu Orhan, Komson Chanprapan
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Kerem Cantekin	Keremcantekin (talk · contribs)	Family economics	Garret Marshall, Sanchit Shrivastava
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